New England Viaduct

BRIGHTON

TQ3005SE NEW ENGLAND ROAD 577-1/26/565 New England Viaduct

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Railway bridge. Foundation stone laid 1839. Yellow brick set in English bond with dressings of stone on the east and west faces, the rest of red brick in English bond. The bridge is in the form of a triumphal arch with a central round-arched opening for the road flanked by narrower and lower pedestrian arches. An order is superimposed on these arches on either side: Doric pilasters with base of stone, shaft of brick, capital of stone, entablature of stone including a frieze of brick; in relation to this order, the arches have a stone springing band running back through the depth of the arch, a brick archivolt and stone keystone. The cornice is missing on the western side, and there is some additional iron work on the eastern side; parapet rebuilt on both sides. The bridge is flanked on the eastern side by yellow brick returns and then by retaining walls in yellow brick coped with stone which run down to corniced piers. The viaduct was part of the first railway line into Brighton, and was widened on the west side in the 1860s. (Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-).

Listing NGR: TQ3090905377